Top "Chef-infra" questions

Chef Infra (formerly just Chef) is a DevOps tool for scripting server configurations in Ruby (called cookbooks).

Testing Chef roles and environments

I'm new to Chef and have been using Test Kitchen to test the validity of my cookbooks, which works great. …

testing tdd chef-infra role test-kitchen
Chef libraries or definitions?

Being relatively new to Chef, I am required to create libraries or definitions from existing recipes. There recipes use bash …

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Supervisor open file limit won't change when using Chef

I am modifying /etc/security/limits.conf on the machine, and then installing Supervisor in a Chef recipe. After the …

ubuntu chef-infra supervisord ulimit
chef - precedence of attributes set on node level

Maybe I missed something in the doc's, but after reading the order that attributes are used when defined in multiple …

chef-infra knife
Chef and Puppet recommendations

I'd like to ask about when and in what circumstances you'd use puppet and when you'd use chef. I've also …

.net rake chef-infra puppet
How do you modularize a Chef recipe?

Here is an example of a working recipe that loops through an array of website names and creates them in …

ruby chef-infra chef-recipe cookbook
SQL Server setup fails with "Unable to generate a temporary class" when through chef-solo on vagrant

Over the past week I've been trying to address Chef COOK-1172 without much success. I'm trying to install SQL Server 2008 …

sql-server powershell chef-infra vagrant winrm